[Reader-list] Fwd: Ashhar Farhan's latest book is out!

Thu May 8 14:21:28 IST 2008

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From: Ashhar Farhan <farhanbox at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:24 AM
Subject: [yocs] Ashhar Farhan's latest book is out!
To: yocs at yahoogroups.com, Elahe <elahehip at gmail.com>,
tobler32 at gmail.com, humeraahmed742004 at hotmail.com,
usha.akella at gmail.com

Ashhar Farhan's latest book is out!

Ashhar Farhan's only book to come out this year, in fact the only book
to come out any year is already out! Go grab a copy now. Be careful
though, it is bit heavy going. All of three thousand pages (die,
vikram seth!). In his own words, it is more approachable than
Wittgenstein's tractotus, more gripping that the bombay telephone
directory and far more informative than the RAW.

the book titled "Bibliography of Social Sciences in Urdu" is written
in both Urdu and English. It is the first book to be simultaneously
published in both languages (apart from zinda tilismath's flyer). Film
rights are reserved and it is expected (by the authors at least) to be
a major motion picture as soon as their filmi friends start accepting
their calls.

the book heralds the death of story in post modern literature and
breaks the arch of narrative by following the structure of a list. as
the reader steps through the book's fast paced, racy pages, he is
assaulted by thousands upon thousands mentions of various books and
articles written by people long dead (thankfully). In the end, he or
she is left with a sense of fear and terror at the menace that social
sciences can become when left to the free will of various academic
investigators and self publishing thinkers.

as the publisher said while chewing on the barra kabaab at karim's -
"chomp! chomp! this can only lead to more research work on the
research work already done, can i have a soda please? burp!"

the book's credits are given to both the authors. one is curiously
related to the other by a stroke of luck. farhan happens to be the son
of moazzam, the other author. while farhan's stellar role has been to
take the entire database, copy it to a memory stick, upload it into an
excel spreadsheet and print it all out, moazzam's lesser but
nevertheless important role has been to actually send couple of boys
around to libraries where they sat and read and wrote about the books
on the shelves for about 10 years, talk about wasting time. the boys
have decided to write a small monograph on 'the making of the
bibliography of urdu social sciences - a comparative study of bed bug
infestation in library chairs' as soon as they are able to walk again.

the books is expected to do brisk sales, clearing up the room in
farhan's living room. the spouses of both the authors were not
available for comment at the time of going to press.

without spoiling the ending, it must be pointed out that the urdu and
english books have different endings due to alphabetic arrangement.
the english book's exciting ending happens in the "Zypher in Zafar's
zeitgeist and zygotic zoology", the urdu ending is not considered fit
for universal audience (such as this) as it involves a poet called
chilkan.

the book is published in three volumes and is available for $100 in
library edition. please send money to the authors directly. they also
indicated that any other form of payment in like wheat, rice,
vegetables, pulses and chicken (not more than 2 days old) is
acceptable tender.

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